Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-24
Futile Attempt to Have ths Mormon
Memorial Printed.
The Senate Expresses q Decided Objec.
ton to Its Consideration.
Three Bills introduced to Extend the
Tension Roll.
The House Committee on Rules Will
Probably Report To-Day.
Congress Will Adjourn for the Holiday
Recess On Thursday.

ate to-day messages were received from the
d President in reference to an invitation to
this Government to appoint delegates to
b the International Exposition Of Labor to
be held at Barcelona, Spain, inApril, 1888,
and in reference to the invitation of Her
Britannia Majesty to this Government to
q participate in the International Exposition
. : to be held in Melbourne in 1888. The mes
). sages were referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
Numerous petitions from various States
were presented in favor OF the Blair Educa-
tional Bill, and also a petition from citi
zens OF Pennsylvania protesting against the
admission OF Utah as a State.
n Mr.. Edmunds asked that the postal tele-
graph bill introduced by him be taken from
the table and referred to the Postoff1ce
= Committee. The bill was SO referred, as
, well as a bill on the same subject intro
} duced by Cullom.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Call yes
. terday to print in the Congressional Record
the memorial Of the constitutional conven-
ton of Utah. It was called up by that gen.
tleman, who asked that it be adopted.
Mr.. Edmunds preferred that the resolu-
ton be referred to the Committee on Ter
%ritories.
Mr.. Call argued it must be due a COM
munity OF people to lave their views fairly
presented. He understood that less thar
8 per cent. Of these people were guilty Of
practices on the assumption of which the
objection of the Senator from Vermont was
based. He would now read the memorial
to inspire it's publication in the Record, and
to show there was nothing Objectionable in
in it. He thereupon read the memorial,
and said that the Senator from Vermont
knew there was nothing in it disrespectful
to Congress, and no reason in right or
justice why the Senate should refuse to hear
q petition of 200. 900 American citizens.
Mr.. Edmunds thanked the Senator from
Florida for his gratifying illusions to him.
He certainly had not questioned the sim
certify of the Senator from Florida, for he |
(CalD had stood behind this polyganist
hierarchy every time that he had any in
| terest to advance or any wholesome legis-
lation to resist. He had done so with a
great deal OF ability and considerable zeal.
He could give the Senator the praise OF be-
ing absolutely sincere in standing by this
body Of persons through thick and thin,
and expected that the Senator would
continue to do SO, and if in
time Utah should become a State and the
United States Constitution should be
changed SO that one person might be a
Senator from two States, he had no doubt
the Senator from Florida would be the first
Senator whom the Mormon hierarchy
would select. He, Edmunds, could produce,
and ask to have printed in the Record
other statements showing the utter hypo-
criey and CANNON OF the performance and
that it was a mere trick to get out from
under the hands OF Congress and from
under the laws OF the U~nited.States. Every
body understood that and he, EdmHnds,
did not propose to print in the Record that
sort OF thing.
Mr.. Call said the Vermont Senator was
not more sincere than correct in his state
ment that he. Call, had stood behind the
Mormon hierarchy. He had stood behind
human rights when the Senator with ex-
quisite cruelty sought to punish innocent
women and children in Utah by legislation
which he, Call, regards as unconstitutional.
unfeeling and unhuman. The Senator had
never heard him advocate corruption and
the Senator had never heard him advocate
corrupt judicial tribunals or packed iuries
or the prostitution OF courts OF justice. He !
Call. had never expressed his opinion as to
how he should vote on the admission OF
Utah, leaving that question for future con-
sideration. He understood by the state I
ments OF reliable citizens, Republicans and
Democrats, that not more than 5 per cent Z
OF the population OF Utah favored polvga- {
my. and that the young people OF the Ter {
ritory were unanimously opposed to it and c
submitted conscientiousIy to the legislation 9
OF Congress. The objections OF the Senator .
from Vermont were vain and idle and we're e
unworthy OF that Senator. They were not
reasonable as a matter of logic, and were a
not true as q matter of fact. t
Mr.. Stewart was opposed to printing the a
in the Record, as it might raise a
false hopes in Utah as being an expression 1
OF opinion that its admission as a State p
was possible at present. He fea red very L
much Utah was not in a condition to be- q
hierarchy. He did not believe o
there was such a thing as freedom ia Utah. o
Free schools as understood elsewhere did v
exist there. Everything was subserv'ent h
to a political organization known as the O
Church. 1t was impossible for h
United States citizens to live liz any part of s.
Utah. Outside of the towns where there W
was no military protection the various a.
modes which Mormons bad of ridding them a
selves OF Gentiles were cruel, unheard OF, Is
the details of which, he would e,
relate at present. He would be a.
'orry to see a vote given in the Senate that II;
favor the admission of Utah as a 1r
State until more people were ready and
prepared to establish a government where
citizens OF all denominations might reside
n peace and be protected. He did not
to see Utah admitted with a weak Sc
promise that she would abolish the orcani- to
alton which governed Mormons with a rod St
iron and excluded other citizens from vo
wing among them. He would think it a 70
reat calamity to nave these people put in oe
position where they could change their pr
at will and perpetuate an or Tic
anization hostile to liberty and founded tn
n q pretended religious hierarchy. lin
Mr.. Platt said there was no reason why tn
memorial Of self.constituted constitu- SCI
ion could be printed in the Record than wi
memorial OF any citizen or any citizens. to
Mr.. Paddock denied that the memorial err
epresented the wishes OF 200, 900 people. Mo
he whole population OF Utah was only lea
900, OF which about 40, 900 were bu
As to the statement that not
lore than 3 per cent. ofthe Mormons we're
oi!ygamists. he asserted that they were all {
olygsmlsts, SO Tar as an Endorsement of mo
70 doctrine was concerned. There was a -"
elief that it was a divine revelation. tio
Mr. Call sa;d tbot 40 r,o,onn;aI .:.- all
zen read by him it would necessarily be "
tinted in the Record, but as he did not
'slre to provoke any further contention
the matter. he withdrew his resolution, r
Mr.. Blair moved that the Senate proceed TO-.
the consideration of the educational w
II. Agreed to: Yeas. SO; nays, IS. The Fra
y vote was as follows: Chi
lueo1lo' OuOVs DeCk, DUUl6r, COckrelI, Cor
Ike. Falkner, German, Gray, Harris out
awley, Hearst, Morgan, Reagan, SAILS: pen
Try, Vest-15. cab
Butler offered a resolution for the par
'pointment of a Select Committee of five str.
enquire into the relations of the fve
'ilized tribes OF Indians and whether it is
and advisable to give citizenship
members of the tribes. B
Mr.. Teller objected to immediate consid. has
ation OF the resolution and it was or. ,o+o
red to lie on the table. ~
\ resolution to authorize the Committee par,
Indian Traders to continue tho ;n,ost;e God
ion begun in the last Congress was re. wal
rted back and adopted. sing
liter a brief executive session, the Senate can
tree
" else
The House.
to increase the membership
The Committee on Rules to seven and to Be
vide for q Committee on the American Lift
hmus respectively were introduced hv OATH